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a laptop has listed of a price of 548.98 before tax. If the sales tax rate is 8.75%, find the total cost of the laptop with sales taxes included round to nearest cent

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we have to add to the original price the tax part. So we get


548.98+548.98\cdot0.0875=597.01575\approx597.02

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